Hello all, Additionally, while enjoying a very rare Matt-event (Alan Belford's middle was Matthew so he stood in as an honorary Matt for the night), and while Medler was on his phone and Williams was inspecting a sparrow-chip, Alan and I had an ADULT FEMALE YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD fly low over us with a mixed flock of Red-winged Blackbirds.
Shorebird numbers weren't crazy high, but in addition to the phalaropes, we did manage 15+ STILT SANDPIPERS, 15+ DOWITCHERS (seemed to be Short-billed but they were at a pretty good distance), 1 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, 4 SANDHILL CRANES and much more. I even dusted off my skills and pulled out 2 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS. A nearly steady stream of migrant BOBOLINKS continued over for what had to be 30-45+ minutes --they were still going over when we left around 7:30. This was all at Knox-Marcellus from Towpath. Evening was topped off with dinner at the Dino in Syracuse. A good time for sure. Young -------------------------------------------------------------------- myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft® Windows® and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
